Hi Team,
I've been slogging through essay and exam season for the past two weeks, so please excuse the lack of posts. Friday is the last day of classes, and I have 3 essays due this day as well. The essay topics that I've taken on are really interesting, but a lot of work. Once I'm a free bird again, I'll be sharing lots and lots of photos and stories with you.
In the meantime, here is my theme song:
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Coolangatta Beach Day
Coolangatta is a suburb about an hour long bus ride from where I live. It's known for its great surf and beautiful beaches, so a group of about 40 of us exchange students decided that it would be great to have a beach weekend there. We spent the day riding the waves, soaking up the sun, and listening to music. Then in the evening, we all spent the night at the same hostel and went out dancing together. One of my favorite Canadian bands, Hey Rosetta!, will be touring around Australia in the next few weeks, and they're playing a show in Coolangatta. Of course I bought my ticket a long time ago, and got to check out the nice venue where I'll be seeing them. They're playing the day after my birthday, which will be a pretty nice present.
Here are some cool pictures I took at the Coolangatta beach with my friends.
Here are some cool pictures I took at the Coolangatta beach with my friends.
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| Coolangatta Beach |
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| Catching some waves |
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| A friend we made on the way to the beach |
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| Excited me with a poster for the upcoming Hey Rosetta! concert. |
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| Tuckered out on the bus after a day of sun. |
Midnight Pie
This travel blog is starting to turn into a food blog. I find I've got more time on my hands here than I usually have when I'm at uni in Canada, so I'm spending my free time doing a lot of baking. I think food is so beautiful, so I just can't help myself taking and sharing pictures of what I've made. Hope you don't mind.
I had a brutal few weeks during mid-semester exams, so after dragging my weary self home after my last exam, I couldn't help but celebrate my freedom from an overbearing workload by baking a pie. (I'm a pie girl, not a cake girl. But don't call me a tart. Hah!). About a week before this midnight pie event, I discovered a fruit and veggie market that sells their produce for at least half the price that the supermarkets sell their produce at. I bought an entire flat of 15 of those small plastic containers of strawberries for only $10. Yum!
Thus, I found myself at 10:30 pm starting to roll out pie crust and mix up the innards of a strawberry-rhubarb pie. As it turned out, I had just enough flour to make the pie crust, but not enough to dust on the counter top to keep the crust from sticking as I rolled it out. I couldn't get my pie crust off the counter-top, so ended up having to press fragments of crust together in the bottom of the pan using my knuckles. I also realized after mixing up the egg wash that I didn't have anything to brush the egg wash onto the pie crust, so I had to use my fingers, and unfortunately you can tell. But when that pie came out of the oven just past midnight, I didn't care that it looked kind of crappy -- it tasted sooo good! Besides, if my Grandpa Venour had been there, he would have said that it was going to look worse where it was going.
I had a brutal few weeks during mid-semester exams, so after dragging my weary self home after my last exam, I couldn't help but celebrate my freedom from an overbearing workload by baking a pie. (I'm a pie girl, not a cake girl. But don't call me a tart. Hah!). About a week before this midnight pie event, I discovered a fruit and veggie market that sells their produce for at least half the price that the supermarkets sell their produce at. I bought an entire flat of 15 of those small plastic containers of strawberries for only $10. Yum!
Thus, I found myself at 10:30 pm starting to roll out pie crust and mix up the innards of a strawberry-rhubarb pie. As it turned out, I had just enough flour to make the pie crust, but not enough to dust on the counter top to keep the crust from sticking as I rolled it out. I couldn't get my pie crust off the counter-top, so ended up having to press fragments of crust together in the bottom of the pan using my knuckles. I also realized after mixing up the egg wash that I didn't have anything to brush the egg wash onto the pie crust, so I had to use my fingers, and unfortunately you can tell. But when that pie came out of the oven just past midnight, I didn't care that it looked kind of crappy -- it tasted sooo good! Besides, if my Grandpa Venour had been there, he would have said that it was going to look worse where it was going.
Aussie Music
I made friends with an Australian girl named Jaki who is really into the same genre of music as me. One of Jaki's favorite musicians, Andy Bull, came to the Gold Coast a few weeks ago, so she and I went to the concert together. The show was held in this teeny tiny bar not far from where I live, and there were only about 60 people there in total, so the concert was really intimate and fun. I bought Andy's EP and cannot stop listening to it. He sounds like a girl when he sings, but he is definitely a dude. Check him out! http://www.myspace.com/andybull My favorite song is called "Dog".
Pie in the Sky!
I was invited to a BBQ for a friend who was celebrating his 10 000th day on Earth, and I decided that pie is the best BBQ desert so I baked up these babies for the celebration. I'd made this pie once before after seeing a reference to it on Dinner with Julie (http://dinnerwithjulie.com/) which is my favorite food blog and source of recipes. Julie is from Calgary, and hosts pie parties and get-togethers that I can't WAIT to take part in when I've moved home. The recipe I used, however, came from good ol' Martha: http://www.marthastewart.com/343295/raspberry-custard-pie . I'm totally in love with this pie, so I think I may have to make it monthly (at least!). Thus, I will gladly bake this pie for anyone, anytime, anywhere.
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| I tried to get artsy with my pie shots. |
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